From a00feb12d82ae2f46db99d0336b955f387f7f354 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Harl Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 22:25:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] collectd(1), README: Document notifications and related plugins. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Harl Signed-off-by: Florian Forster --- README | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ src/collectd.pod | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 06650e81..a16e9ec5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -210,9 +210,29 @@ Features - logfile Writes logmessages to a file or STDOUT/STDERR. + - perl + Log messages are propagated to plugins written in Perl as well. + See collectd-perl(5). + - syslog Logs to the standard UNIX logging mechanism, syslog. + * Notifications can be handled by the following plugins: + + - exec + Execute a program or script to handle the notification. + See collectd-exec(5). + + - logfile + Writes the notification message to a file or STDOUT/STDERR. + + - network + Send the notification to a remote host to handle it somehow. + + - perl + Notifications are propagated to plugins written in Perl as well. + See collectd-perl(5). + * Miscellaneous plugins: - uuid diff --git a/src/collectd.pod b/src/collectd.pod index 2a326bb6..b55362a3 100644 --- a/src/collectd.pod +++ b/src/collectd.pod @@ -89,6 +89,11 @@ C and the C. With these plugins collectd can provide information about issues and significant situations to the user. Several loglevels let you suppress uninteresting messages. +Starting with version C<4.3.0> collectd has support for B. This is +done by checking thresholds defined by the user. If a value is out of range, a +notification will be dispatched to "notification plugins". See +L for more detailed information about threshold checking. + Please note that some plugins, that provide other means of communicating with the daemon, have manpages of their own to describe their functionality in more detail. In particular those are L, L, -- 2.11.0